Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

I got this grave yard woman.

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.